You can define the required properties for a page. These can vary depending on the nature of the page. For example some pages might be connected to a live copy while others are not and the live copy information will be available as appropriate.

Page Properties

The properties are distributed across several tabs.

Basic

Title

The title of the page is shown in various locations. For example, the Websites tab list and the Sites card/list views.

This is a mandatory field.

Tags

Here you can add, or remove tags from the page by updating the list in the selection box:

After selecting a tag is it listed below the selection box. You can remove a tag from this list using the x.

A completely new tag can be entered by typing the name in an empty selection box.

The new tag will be created when you hit enter.

The new tag will then be shown with a small star on the right indicating that it is a new tag.

With the drop-down functionality you can select from existing tags.

An x appears when you mouse-over a tag entry in the selection box, which can be used to remove that tag for this page.

Indicates whether the page is shown or hidden in the page navigation of the resulting site.

Page Title

A title to be used on the page. Typically used by title components. If empty the Title will be used.

Navigation Title

You can specify a separate title for use in the navigation (for example, if you want something more concise). If empty, the Title will be used.

Subtitle

A subtitle for use on the page.

Description

Your description of the page, its purpose, or any other details you want to add.

On Time

The date and time at which the published page will be activated. When published this page will be kept dormant until the specified time.

Leave these fields empty for pages you want to publish immediately (the normal scenario).

Off Time

The time at which the published page will be deactivated.

Again leave these fields empty for pages you want to publish immediately.

Vanity URL

Allows you to enter a vanity URL for this page, which can allow you to have a shorter and/or more expressive URL.

For example, if the Vanity URL is set to welcome to the page identified by the path /v1.0/startpage for the website http://example.com, then http://example.com/welcome would be the vanity URL of http://example.com/content/v1.0/startpage

Caution:

Vanity URLs:

Must be unique so you should take care that the value is not already used by another page.

The requirement to have authentication can be set here along with a designated logon page. Closed user groups for the page are defined on the Permissions tab.

Caution:

The Permissions tab allows editing of CUG configurations based on the presence of the granite:AuthenticationRequired mixin. If page permissions are configured using deprecated CUG configurations, based on the presence of cq:cugEnabled property, a warning message will be shown under Authentication Requirement and the option will not be editable, nor will the Permissions be editable.

Personalization

Permissions

The Permissions tab allows editing of CUG configurations based on the presence of the granite:AuthenticationRequired mixin. If page permissions are configured using deprecated CUG configurations, based on the presence of cq:cugEnabled property, a warning message will be shown and the CUG permissions will not be editable, nor will the Authentication Requirement on the Advanced tab be editable.

The Permissions tab does not allow the creation of empty CUG groups, which can be useful as a simple way to deny access to every user. To do this CRX Explorer must be used. See the document User, Group and Access Rights Administration for more information.

Blueprint

Blueprint

Define properties for a Blueprint page within multi-site management. Controls the circumstances under which modifications will be propagated to the Live Copy.

Live Copy

Livecopy

Define properties for a Live Copy page within multi-site management. Controls the circumstances under which modifications will be propagated from the Blueprint.

There is also the Bulk Editor, which allows you to search for content from multiple pages using GQL (Google Query Language) and then edit the content directly in the bulk editor before saving your changes to the originating pages.

You can select multiple pages for bulk editing by various methods, including:

When browsing the Sites console

After using Search to locate a set of pages

After selecting the pages and then clicking or tapping the Properties option,the bulk properties will be shown:

You can only bulk edit pages that:

Share the same resource type

Are not part of a livecopy

If any of the pages are in a live copy then a message will be shown when the properties are opened.

Once you have entered Bulk Editing you can:

View

When viewing Page Properties for multiple pages you can see:

A list of the pages impacted

You can select/deselect if required

Tabs

As when viewing properties for a single page, the properties are ordered under tabs.

A subset of properties

Properties that are available on all selected pages and have been explicitly defined as available to bulk editing are visible.

If you reduce the page selection to one page, then all properties are visible.

Common properties with a common value

Only properties with a common value are shown in View mode.

When the field is multi-value (for example Tags), values will only be shown when all are common. If only some are common, they will only be shown when editing.

When no properties with a common value exist, a message is displayed.

Edit

When editing Page Properties for multiple pages:

You can update the values in the fields available.

The new values will be applied to all selected pages when you select Done.

When the field is multi-value (for example Tags), you can either append a new value or remove a common value.

Fields that are common, but have different values across the various pages will be indicated with a special value such as the text <Mixed Entries>. Care should be taken when editing such fields to prevent data loss.